Response to comments: Survival of women with locally advanced breast cancer at a teaching hospital in Lahore

This letter is in response to the comments raised by kashif shafique and saira s mirza regarding potential mistakes in statistical methods in our article published recently in jpma. the paper was part of 3rd international network for cancer treatment and registration (inctr) workshop on 'scientific paper writing'. the aim of the workshop was to help young physicians from limitedresource countries to effectively write and present their research. both general and scientific contents of paper were evaluated. lastly, the reason for submitting this paper in your prestigious journal was to target the readership in pakistan as we are still far behind in our understanding of breast cancer in our specific population as a result of very limited research.